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HERSTORY
CLARA ANN HOWARD
Clara Ann Howard was the only daughter of nine children born to King Howard and Mary Ann Howard in Greenville, Georgia. Her father was born into slavery and bought his freedom before emancipation, was literate, and a skilled carriage maker. Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Clara was one of the first students to attend Spelman Seminary and was valedictorian of the Class of 1887. She taught school in Atlanta after college. In 1890, she joined the Women’s Baptist Foreign Missionary Society and was stationed at Lukunga in the Congo for the next five years. Howard was the second Spelman graduate to go to the Congo. While in the Congo she ran an orphanage, taught school, and ran a printing office with her Spelman sister.
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